Charlton Athletic 3 (0) (Reid 56, 69 (pens), Pearson 64) Crystal Palace 1 (1) (Gray 31 (pen)). The Valley. Att: 6,637
Charlton: Johns, Humphrey, Reid, Loveridge, Thompson, Pender, Stuart, Aizlewood, Pearson, Shipley, Flanagan. Unused sub: Lee.
Palace: Wood, Hughton, Lindsay, Finnigan, Droy, Cannon, Irvine (Higginbottom 70), Ketteridge, Galloway, Gray, Barber.
Referee: D Hedges (Oxford)
Penalties: Gray penalty goal for Palace after a foul on Droy by Pearson. Reid two penalty's after Cannon bought down Stuart and then Gray handled. Wood saved Reid's first kick and Stuart hit home the rebound but the ref had already blown for a retake because the keeper had moved before the ball was struck.
Reid then put his name in the record books by taking a third penalty in the 82nd minute after Lindsay had fouled Pearson, but this time Woods save was deemed legal.
GROUND SHARING!!!
Fans were hit with the bombshell news, contained in a leaflet distributed before the match, that Charlton had agreed to share Selhurst Park with Crystal Palace. In fact the club were lodgers from start to finish of this silly arrangement, which was doomed to failure from the outset.
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None of us had any idea what was to come. We'd had a lunchtime drink at the Meridian club, strolled through Charlton Park and down to the ground - just idle chat, as you do, about the team, football in general and anything else that you talk about. Bought the programme outside the ground and got handed the leaflet.
It didn't seem real, somebody was having a laugh but it wasn't funny.
7 long years.......but it was the making of our club - a club in every sense of the word, where you felt you belonged.
Great line that Oggy
They the DIRECTORS didn't like it at all.
how crap were our at gates at the time ....
it's amazing to think gow far we've come since those ground sharing days , our home support has gone 350% and our away support has gone up 5%
what an amazing job the board and mr curbishley have done turning our club/ground into such a beautiful thing , not forgetting the great work sir lennie of lawrence did keeping us alive in those dark days at selhurst
Not sure what the capacity was but it can't have been much more, as the east terrace was closed.
I've still got the handout from the game indoors. Watched the centenery DVD and recognised myself on the ptich against Stoke at half and full time.
Well it was 22 years ago, about 10 weeks after I go married.
can't really remember the game,palace fixtures were always meaningless to me then.our side was one of my favorites though and with all this nonsense going on,we went up to division one after so many years of competing at the other end of the table.
lennie lawrence is a legend.
For years I have wondered if I imagined it, or was there something in one of the local papers in the week leading up to the game? I have a feeling the Kentish Times had what I assumed was a scare story about not being able to continue at The Valley, but since they shut the East terrace that summer, the doom mongers were out in force. Having had so many brushes with oblivion at Charlton I suppose many of us just took most things with a pinch of salt.
There was an article in the Sidcup Times a week or two before the palace game. It even mentioned sharing with them was a possibility.
I wonder what the song at the time was to ridicule shite away support.
It was a handy team alright, that was what made it all the more galling. Lennie had done a great job in close season, similar to last year by SCP. Pearson had actually been announced at the final game of the previous season, as I recall.
There was no internet and nobody knew each other beyond their own friends. I was seething, and went to the next Supporters Club meeting, expecting everybody else to be seething too, and to find common cause. The ground move wasn't even on the agenda. They warbled on for ages about coach versus train for "away" travel. The irony of it. Lennie was there, looking nervous. In the end I grabbed the mike and asked them how come the fact that from now on EVERY game was an away game, wasn't even being discussed. Nobody even answered me directly. They thought I had a cheek, turning up like that and challenging the wisdom of the directors, and the long standing Supporters Club officials. But lurking in the background, as I discovered a couple of years later, were Airman Brown and Steve Dixon. And they were thinking about a different piece of paper...
I don't remember a thing about the game.
Would have been good to see Mark Reid get a hat trick of penalties as I'm not too sure how often thats done in a game, the last one he hit straight but it caught the goalies foot (George Wood I think, and went over the bar.